Work

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

- Samuel Goldwyn

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

- Wayne Gretzky

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

- Charles Baudelaire

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

- Carlos Castenada

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

- Janet Jackson

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

- Emily Bronte

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

- Ralph Bunche

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

- Joyce Meyer

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

- Rebecca West

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

- Jerry Seinfeld

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

- Friedrich Schiller

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

- Michelle Obama

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

- Mao Zedong

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

- W. Edwards Deming

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

- Barbra Streisand

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers

- Tom Stoppard

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

- Julie Benz

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

- Temple Grandin

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

- Marie Corelli

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.

- Craig Bruce

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

- Saint Francis de Sales

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

- P. T. Barnum

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

- Mel Brooks

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

- Marilyn vos Savant

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

- Julia Cameron

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

- David Lee Roth

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

- Richard Pryor

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

- Lewis Thomas

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

- Charles Schwab

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

- Mary Oliver

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

- Zora Neale Hurston

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

- Charles Barkley

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic.

- Heidi Klum

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

- George Whitefield

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.